So how much dated is this thing now that its actually shipping? What else can you get for this sum of money ?

To be honest, I paid 200 quid for it. You can't get anything with a 600mhz Cortex A8 inside for that kind of cash. Of course, batch 2 is now a tad more expensive at $330... But even so, you're paying not only for the CPU horsepower, but the gaming controls too. What other handheld out there has twin analogue numbs, keyboard and DPad/Face buttons?

Although it doesn't look that small on this pic it actually feels tiny. The dpad is smaller than I expected and the whole device is quite heavy.
But everything also feels quite well built and the buttons are good. Although small the dpad feels much better than the PSP's. The device also looks great.

Works fullspeed with frameskip 0 and perfect 44kHz stereo sound at the Pandora's default speed.

Only one sound effect - collecting diamonds - sounds weird. Other than that the sound is spot on.

The keyboard already works in the emulator. I've opened the music menu prior to playing the game and navigated with the numbers and Escape. In game "P" also paused the game.

There are 3 control setups for different genres. The 2nd is perfect for Turrican: jump with the lower firebutton, single shoot with the left button and fire a powerline with the right button. The upper button activates auto autofire. Because the single fire still interrupts the autofire (as long as you push it) you can just let Turrican autoshoot all day and still activate the laserbeam with single fire when needed.

This version of the emulator just doubles all the pixels resulting in Turrican II not using the screen's full height. The game has only 216 pixels height which is doubled 432 (< than the Pandora's 480 pixels height).
"Fullscreen" 320x256-games won't be fully displayed with this version of the emulator.
It really needs an Autozoom feature as PSPUAE has.

Maybe I'll try to build the N900-port of UAE4All which has more features - incl. savestates. Btw., the N900 has the same CPU and resolution as the Pandora (800x480) and the one who ported UAE4ll to it (smoku) already put a lot of effort into it.

Scrolling isn't 50Hz-perfect as the Pandora's LCD has a different refresh rate (which was to be expected). Hopefully there'll be an application that lets us change the display's refresh rate. But it's not a big deal on such a small screen.

These games don't work with this version of the emu:
Assassin SE, Lionheart, Lotus II, SuperCars I+II

^ There's one on eBay...

Sounds like you need gnostics, uae gp2x.

The one on ebay, you must be snorting something if you think I would pay more than £200 from something like that.
I love the way people keep praising it up, yet you cant order it. Try going to their site, you cant order it like it clearly states on their main page.
People will just be screwing people over on ebay, what a waste of time.